New restaurant lot - The FishTankTwo

Well, I had to throw out the original FishTank. It just wouldn't want to work right. The sims could not arrive there and the whole thing crashed. So I created another one. Cautious - this time I kept it simple. But the lot was blessed by a good witch the first time I tried playing my sims there, so I hope this one will be fine. Here are a couple of pictures from the inside and outside.

Sims leaving but not arriving to the community lot

I have a strange technical problem and have no idea how to solve it. I have created a new community lot called The Fishtank. This is a restaurant with a lot of underwater feelings! I created it as usual and still my sims can't enter it. When the screen comes up their icons say "arrive" - normally this lasts until the taxi is there. But in this case the taxi wouldn't show up. Townies and other sims that live in the neighborhood are there, using the lot, having fun, but the family in question is uncontrollable. I have tried with other families, and it's all the same. I would hate to throw this lot away, I have worked so much on it!

Here's a picture:

Story creation - not so easy

The thing is that I thought I can just make a story and that it will be easy. But the problem is that I actually need a story BEFORE playing the game. I have created my characters and put them in the game, started playing, made tons of screenshots, and than realized there's nothing interesting in the whole thing FOR OTHERS. For a publishable story, one needs just that: a story. An enjoyable thread of events, an adventure, a punchline, something that is unique. Cool shots with normal setups like going to school and work and love and divorce etc are not enough. I haven't given up, but hey, I am not a writer. So I am waiting for that little breeze of inspiration...:D Until that, here's a so called cool shot.

Creating a story

I started to create a story. This will be my first. This will be connected to one of the TSR challenges I am currently playing. I introduced a character - a young man - whose looks and partial behaviour was inspired by my ex-boyfriends (well, from long ago in my teenagehood), so it's personally funny. I still have a problem finding good male hairs for my sim boys, though.

Heidi the fisher(wo)man from Volterra, Italy

So I uploaded Heidi's portrait finally. She is very sexy and very mean. And a cruel vampire. Well, not yet, I still have to turn her into one. That's going to complete I guess my efforts about recreating the characters in Twilight. It's high time now to really play with them...:D

And in the mean time, I turned back to the painters wall series, but it's really tough. It goes so slowly and sometimes I just run out of executable ideas. I mean, I know what I want to create but my graphics software skills are so limited. Also, I can't make the Body Shop work for me. It opens in like 20 minutes, and then when I try to start a project it gets me an error message, and that's it. I haven't found any useful solution in the forumes either. It's really a pity, because I have tons of projects on my mind.

My Dark Elf things

Well, it happened that my daughter decided to become a dark elf at the school carnival. So I had to educate myself on the subject. My friends recommended to read Salvatore's Homeland and the series about Drizzt Do'Urden, which is probably the basic dark elf. I liked the story and the settings a lot, having a vivid imagination I just HAD TO create a Sim Drizzt. But it's always difficult to find the right clothes, and objects and surroundings for non-modern and non-reallife characters.

Anyway, I started experimenting, and the hair I would love to get for Drizzt is something like on this picture below. I would appreciate help from anyone on this subject.

Jake's house is finally uploaded.

Just that. I've decided to upload an unfurnished version. If someone really wants to play a story something like the Twilight, it really doesn't matter what kind of furniture Jake has, isn't it? I would try to pay more attention to the Cullen's house' furbishing anyway! (Or else, Esme would be upset, wouldn't she?)

After a nice game crash, here's another one, a blog entry emptying.

Now, this is just unfair. I feel like a 1.0 user, better put, I real loser.

After finally stopping to fume about the last game crash, I have made a nice long blog entry, and it gets emptied out all of a sudden. I'll be paranoic from now on, copying and saving all the time.

Anyway, what I was going to say in short, is that I decided to upload the small house I created for Jacob Black (and his dad), because eventually it is a cozy little home for a starter family and I decided that it was cute, really. It is on the beach (La Push First Beach, as in the book New Moon) the washed-on-the-shore tree trunk is there, surrounded by a pine forrest. Yes, it is supposed to be at a rainy northern territory, sorry folks, no palm trees this time. It also has a relatively huge garage, because that's what Jake is doing - besides being a warewolf - he builds cars. So I guess I will put a buildable car into the lot, so Free Time expansion pack will be needed. (And Nightlife, because of the cars.)

The application crashed

"The application crashed. The application will now terminate." And there's nothing you can do. I JUST HATE IT.

Heidi from Voltera and Jacob Black from the Twilight series

I was off yesterday to finally create a wicked, bloodthursty and extremely beiful Heidi, the vampire hunter from Book 2 of the Twilight series. The stuff is that I didn't quite find the right clothes for her, I mean exactly what was described in the book. Also, I have found gorgeous sim ladies, but unfortunately none of them was MEAN ENOUGH. So I played a bit with the eyes in CAS, to make it look more vampire like. I would also need a real vampire skin, something that is brighter than necessary. I built one finally but I'm not 100% satisfied. I have placed her in the Sims catalogue, but haven't assigned a house. (For that I'd need to build a really dark, medieval and mediterranean castle - undergound.)

However, instead of making a good Heidi I could create a fairly good Alice. That was just a sudden idea, because of the pretty face and the hair that went well with it. But unfortunately Alice looks too human, too. And I don't want to give her red eyes, she is supposed to be a veggy vampire just like Edward. Perhaps I shall turn her into a vamp and then try to change the red eyes in the mirror. Got to try that, yeah. On the other hand, I am more than satisfied with being able to use a yellow Porsche with her! (But I noticed now, that the screenshot I made doesn't show that IT IS a Porsche.) Perhaps the true Twilight fans will realize! :D

I had better luck with Jacob Black, but he looks so innocent that he can't possibly be a warewolf. And I have never tried to create a Sim warefold through the game, so... we'll see. So, currently I decided to show Jake BEFORE he phased first. I will need to do something with his face to show him less cute and more powerful. Bad news for my Sim Jake, I will focus on his body points to gain some cool muscles, hahaha! :D He will have to do push-ups all day! (Me, too. My master is more than disappointed at my performance concerning push-ups.) So I guess it will be something like Jake on the screen, me on the floor until he gets red at hygene, and me in the face. We'll both start with total green lines, ;-)